Mapping the spatial distribution of plant species in savannas provides insight into the roles of competition, fire, herbivory, soils and climate in maintaining the biodiversity of these ecosystems. This study focuses on the challenges facing large-scale species mapping using a fusion of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and hyperspectral imagery. Here we build upon previous work on airborne s...

WILLIAM W. OLIVER is in charge of the Station's silviculmnl research on California conifer types, wilh hcadquwcrs at Kcdding, Calif. He earned a bachelor's degree (1956) in forestry froin the University of New Hampshire. and a master of foreslry degree (1960) fmln the University of Michigan. He joined the Station in 1962. Advance regeneration is co~nmon under decadent, old-growth stands of Cali...

Crown roots constitute the majority of the rice (Oryza sativa) root system and play an important role in rice growth and development. However, the molecular mechanism of crown root formation in rice is not well understood. Here, we characterized a rice dominant mutant, root enhancer1 (ren1-D), which was observed to exhibit a more robust root system, increased crown root number, and reduced plan...

The paper studies crown reductions for the Minimum Weighted Vertex Cover problem introduced recently in the unweighted case by Fellows et al. ([20], [1]). We describe in detail a close relation of crown reductions to Nemhauser and Trotter reductions that are based on the linear programming relaxation of the problem. We introduce and study the so called strong crown reductions, suitable for find...

to assessment alfalfa cultivars research project this research has been fulfilled in 2011 at khouzestan agricultural and natural resource research center in southwest of ahwaz in khouzestan province (iran) by position 31º20′ n, 48º40′ e. at first section for evaluation wet forage yield cultivars such as “baghdadi”, “mesasersa”, “yazdi”, “bami”, “nikshahri”, “synthetic” (main factor) and two cut...

Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis Sieb. et Zucc.) is the most important forest vegetation in northeast China. The timber quality of this tree species largely driven by branch growth and distribution within crown. Thus, developing diameter length models, especially those that include competition indices, essential. A total 48 trees were selected to conduct destructive measurements characteristics. T...